Bringing to an end the current run of programmes which united The Open University with BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed, Laurie Taylor investigates a novel way of exploring development.
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Development of a country is conventionally measured by GDP, but that can mask a growing inequality in that nation and makes no reference to freedoms, rights or education.
The philosopher Martha Nussbaum outlines her 'human capabilities' approach which she has developed with the Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen. She tells Laurie that her index can be applied around the world and across all cultures as an index which measures how populations are flourishing or flailing.
This edition of Thinking Allowed is a co-production between the BBC and The Open University. You can hear it on BBC Radio 4 at 4pm on Wednesday 27th July, 2011 and again at a quarter past midnight on Monday morning, 1st August. Further broadcast details, podcast and listen again links are at bbc.co.uk.
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A small mistake.
"OU on the BBC: Thinking Allowed - Human capabilities" is the title of the webpage on which it appears.
http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-thinking-allowed-...
The broadcast time of 'Thinking Allowed' on Radio 4 is shown as 12.15pm, whereas it is 12.15AM.
Interesting watching the BBC Four Great Thinkers Prog, some of whom came to fixed views only to have them challenged later.
Some opinions are 'misheard' some are miscommunicated by simple human error such as a typo, that prompted this comment.